Occupational Therapist - Home Based Primary Care

About the role

Location: CODY - WY - Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC). The Occupational Therapist (OT) provides in‑home rehabilitation therapy assessments, home assessments, treatment planning and administration, and management of rehabilitation in the home for patients in the Home Based Primary Care (HBPC) Program at the Sheridan VA Health Care System. Due to the frontier nature of the service area and staffing levels, the position requires travel in the community.

Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary therapist in Geriatrics Extended Care.
• Provides evaluations and assessments for physical abnormalities and functional disabilities that interfere with Activities of Daily Living and/or quality of life.
• Delivers in‑home services to veterans with multiple, complex chronic illnesses and/or profound disabilities to improve or maintain functional levels and encourage independence.
• Determines functional‑related problems, completes safety assessments as clinically indicated.
• Works in the community, traveling some distance alone to meet with Veterans enrolled in the HBPC program.
• Independently plans, develops, and implements comprehensive treatment programs for individual patients or groups to restore and enhance performance and potential for independent living or maximize function within lifestyle.
• Coordinates case management services as part of a multidisciplinary team (peer support, psychology, psychiatry, mental health case management, substance abuse treatment, homeless case management, vocational rehabilitation, family psychosocial education).
• Performs advanced occupational therapy techniques to evaluate patients for a wide range of diagnoses (primarily psychosocial) to establish a baseline level of function via medical record review, observation, interviews focusing on cognitive and social skills, role dysfunction, ROM, strength, sensation, proprioception, coordination, perception, self‑care, homemaking, assistive/orthotic/prosthetic/adaptive equipment needs, avocational/vocational skills, etc.
• Conducts occupational therapy assessment and treatment of occupation‑cognitive and psychological functional deficits to develop and implement treatment plans with individuals, families, and/or groups to meet individual patient rehabilitation objectives.

Requirements

This is an open continuous announcement; it will remain open until September 30, 2026 or until the position is filled. The initial cutoff date for referral of eligible applications is August 6, 2026. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vac